| Corzine vetoes tax repeal
TRENTON Gov. Jon S. Corzine vetoed a bill Friday that seeks to repeal a tax on cosmetic surgery, a month after it was passed nearly unanimously by the Legislature.
Lawmakers pushed the legislation saying the state's tax on cosmetic surgery was costing New Jersey businesses customers to neighboring states. In 2004, at the urging of Gov. James E. McGreevey, lawmakers added a 6 percent tax assessed on most voluntary cosmetic surgeries. Back then, it was estimated it would bring the state $26 million a year, but it actually nets about $11 million. In a statement, Corzine said he couldn't get rid of a reliable source of funding that goes toward charity care provided by hospitals to the uninsured. .
Woman accused of poisoning spouse was in wet t-shirt contest after ...
SAN DIEGO - Two ex-co-workers of a woman accused of poisoning her Marine husband testified Wednesday that she participated in wet T-shirt and thong contests a few months after he died, and three military men testified they had sex with her in the weeks after she became a widow.Cynthia Sommer, 33, is charged with murder and special circumstances of murder by poison and murder for financial gain in the Feb. 18, 2002, death of Sgt. Todd Sommer. Closing arguments are scheduled tomorrow. .
BRAZIL: Revised Ford Fiesta ready for competition
Ford Brazil is taking on increased competition in the small car sector with a 2008 model year facelift for its Camaçari-built Fiesta that makes the model even more distinctively different from the European version – and then there's the unique sedan models that supplement the hatchbacks. Article word count: 432 .
Goldeneye retreat to get facelift
Goldeneye, the scenic rural retreat in eastern Jamaica where British author Ian Fleming created the James Bond character that spawned dozens of novels and films, is getting a facelift. Work begins in June on 82 villas, cottages and suites at the 40-hectare property overlooking a harbour in St Mary parish, Jason Henzell, president of luxury hotelier Island Outpost, said. Henzell said Goldeneye's current owner, media mogul Chris Blackwell - who is also the owner of Island Outpost - wanted to use the property for tourism. "He wants to develop a new niche in Jamaica called residential tourism, where people buy land, visit and ultimately promote the island," he said. He declined to comment on the project's cost. Fleming bought Goldeneye in the mid-1940s when it spanned just 16 hectares, and wrote several books there.
Graphic warnings on cigarette packs DO help smokers quit
According to the latest research the best way to discourage people from smoking is to plaster big, graphic warnings on cigarette packets, and the bigger they are the better. The new study which is based on four surveys conducted in Australia, Canada, the United States and Britain over a period of three years from 2002 to 2005, has found that people do heed such warnings and they do encourage people to quit. .
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